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This is how you Belt your coat à la Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trend

I'll Have What She's Having: A fresh, late season update by way of you belt your coat, just so Let's face it, we are all getting a bit sick of winter. We probably already bought what we could from the sales yet still may be craving a late season picker-upper. Rethink! Yup, rethink what we wear a different way. Get creative and get more style fast. >>MORE: Fashion Week Street Style Take a look at our lovely lady above snapped at Paris Fashion Week and notice how she added a simple ruff hewn luggage tan color belt to cinch in the waist of her otherwise unbuttoned coat. It looks fantastic and changed the line, in a great way, to her straight, slim coat. >>

Leave it to the French to take it up a notch. We saw those carefree and adorable boyfriend beanies on the street style ladies of London Fashion Week. And, now for Paris Fashion Week, we have the super chic knit hats by way of a turban and an oversized pom-pom looking so right with dressed up city fun colors. >> MORE: RUNWAY & STREET STYLE TRENDS I have to admit that I've always been a bit shizzled about wearing turbans. There was a black leather Hermés turban that I snagged at a sample sale and felt a bit overwhelmed wearing. I gave it out for consignment, and like a side street fortune-teller, it vanished without a trace, along with my

I'll Have What She's Having: Paris Fashion Week street style proves to have zippy classic age-appropriate inspiration with business chic takes on animal print skirts. Animal prints can have a fabulously downtown cool edge, like our street style ladies and their leopard pants from London Fashion Week, yet too much fierceness may get out of hand for work. But not always, especially if you follow the super chic cues from these two sophisticated ladies, above, snapped at Paris Fashion Week. Either like the red Balenciaga print, left, or the more classic, big cheetah, pictured right, choose your style weapons and work it! >> MORE: I'll Have What She's Having and Fashion Week Street Style When you want to wear a business chic & age-appropriate animal print skirt,

I'll Have What She's Having: Classic styling in yet difficult-to-wear pieces in this first in a series of Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trends Beautiful, volume-packed pieces that look oh so gorgeous on the hanger. Yet, when you put them, you may look like you were the last one sitting at the ribfest. But, when worn RIGHT, the result is MAGIC, like our lovely lady above snapped at Paris Fashion Week. >> MORE: I'll Have What She's Having and Fashion Week Street Style The key to pulling off volume is to balance fuller pieces against slimmer fitting pieces, and show a little skin, like this cute crop top, doesn't hurt either. (Rewind: we highlighted camel crop top sweaters in our Milan Fashion Week

Lady-like fashion from Bottega Veneta Style Notes for the Top 5 Milan Fashion Week Trends: You loved our extensive coverage of NYFW and our Top 7 New York Fashion Week Trends for Fall 2013. Our Fashion Week street style trends from NY & London have been a hit too. And again, we bring you the Top Trends to add to your wardrobe NOW. As we look back city by city to bring you key elements that you can easily incorporate into your present look, and with most likely elements you may already have (and have a handle on), comes a look at Milan's top notes. >> MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS Chunky Heels- Chunky heels at Jil Sander Seen at: Jil Sander, Prada, Bottega Veneta Perhaps to add an edge to the

Retail Remedy: Just in time for Fashion Week, Printemps salutes Paris shopping with a special homage to Chloe. >> MORE: Paris Printemps is blowing out the candles on the 60th birthday celebration of Chloé big time. Gaby Aghion, the founder of Chloé, started the label in 1953 with a modest show at the Café de Flore. Since then it has grown into one of the most beloved and respected French fashion brands and is sold internationally. Aghion’s original theory was to do casual, free spirited clothing and accessories but with a couture backbone. Chloé has had an outstanding succession of designers over the years and the alumni incudes Karl Lagerfeld, Martine Sitbon, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, and Hannah McGibbon. The current designer is

MARNI Fall 2013 From Milan Fashion Week, Marni Fall 2013 The season ahead saw Marni designer Consuela Castiglioni holding back on her signature prints and retro sensibilities for a somber palette of menswear grays. Which, makes a smart statement for Marni devotees as they'll be able to revive bold pieces from seasons past by pairing them with neutral, foundational pieces going forward. -Something you should take note of too as fashions head-to-toe print craze dies down. >> MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS In their words… Strictness. Texture. A sparse sense of melancholia. The new Marni collection is austere, with a romantic edge. It plays with ideas of un-balanced balance: volume and flatness, severity and grace, opacity and shine. Protagonists are the precision

Dolce & Gabbana Woman Winter 2014 Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2013 runway highlights and video: Leave it to Dolce & Gabbana to pepper the Milan F/W 2013 fashion week with a decadent homage to Italy by once again taking inspiration from their native country. >> MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS The collection, with its religious touchstones, regal embroideries and ladylike shapes, offered a heady alternative to the seasons serious grays and reappropriations of the 40's seen elsewhere. And for those looking to score ticks on trend lists, there was a chic section of gray tweeds and standby black too, sandwiched in between the 75+ winning looks. From Milan Fashion Week, Dolce & Gabbana Woman Fall 2013 video: Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2013

We love the way Adele keeps it real and true to herself on the red carpet. We also love the way drugstore hair products were used to create her Bond girl hair at the Oscars. Adele's voluminous, half-up do was the right touch of glam to complement her Jenny Packham dress. Remember, Jenny Packham was one of the designer's from our New York Fashion Week Red Carpet picks?! >>CHECK OUT: Oscars 2013 Red Carpet Arrivals… as it happens Hairstylist Michael Ashton created Adele's red carpet hairstyle using drug store products from John Frieda. Here's the hairstyle how-to for you to try at home: Towel dry wet hair, removing excess moisture before working through Luxurious Volume Fine to Full Blow-Out Spray on mid-lengths and

As the stars start to arrive, let's look at Oscar Red Carpet Fashion 2013. It's not exactly a year of thrills and chills for fashion. More like a year of safe, pale, and boring, with a few stunning exceptions. SCULPTED SILHOUETTES- Naomi Watts pictured above and below, in Armani Prive looks like a movie star. An exceptional aspirational gown as described by Armani as a "custom Giorgio Armani gown fully envelope in layered gunmetal grey sequins. The other worldly gown features galactic cap sleeves and an abstract triangle cut out in the front. The fitted bodice cascades into a slightly pooling train creating an architecturalsilhouette." Naomi Watts in Armani Prive >>MORE from the Oscars Zoe Saldana in Alexis Mabille Couture Zoe Saldana, always a red carpet favorite, wows

Celebrity Spanx- what shapewears do the stars wear on the red carpet

And, the shapewear Oscar goes to… Celebrity Spanx Moments… Who sucks what in…. Shapewear, baby, it's THE way to go! Red carpet fashion can be a bit awe-inspiring and unreachable. And, what about those killer bods underneath those gorgeous dresses? Well, many of the bodies that are worked out to an inch of their lives get a little extra "help" too. Celebrity Spanx! There should be a red carpet for what is surely NOT your mama's girdle. Thanks to a not so secret weapon against lumps and bumps, shapewear comes to the rescue-- it's something that we all can emulate, and maybe make our personal dressing look that much better for it. We got the peeps at Spanx to dish on

Red Carpet fashion picks from New York Fashion Week- fall 2013

Red Carpet fashion picks from New York Fashion Oscar dressing- Red carpet fashion from the runways of Naeem Khan, Jenny Packham, Reem Acra, J Mendel Fall 2013 With all our New York Fashion Week coverage, we thought it would be fun to do something different for all the WOW factor red carpet fashion that graced the catwalk last week. The Oscars are upon us and the eveningwear showcase at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York really got the buzz going for who may be wearing what on the coveted Red Carpet. Some favorite NY contenders for celebrity dressing are Jenny Packham, Naeem Khan, Reem Acra, and a handful of key pieces from J. Mendel. >> DON'T MISS: The TOP 7

Style Notes for the Top 5 London Fashion Week Trends: You loved our extensive coverage of NYFW and our Top 7 New York Fashion Week Trends for Fall 2013. Our Fashion Week street style trends from NY & London have been a hit too. Wink, wink. So, without further adieu... we bring you the Top 5 Trends from London fashion Week for fall 2013 to start to add to your wardrobe NOW. Do I here a sale rack calling??? As news breaks that designer Christopher Kane joined the big leagues with new funding, London Fashion Week trends saw many of his generational peers adapting a stronger, more directional approach to their collections. In other words, some of the fashion world's most notable, forward

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This is how you Belt your coat à la Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trend

Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trend Report: It’s chilly, wear a fun + chic knit hat, like a turban or a big pom-pom!

Afraid to wear an animal print skirt to work? Think again, just add Paris Fashion Week Street Style for age-appropriate business chic

This is how you wear Camel + Red + Volume à la Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trend

TOP 5 Milan Fashion Week Trends From Fall 2013 To Wear Now

Paris Shopping- Printemps Props the Chloé Edition Anniversaire Boutique

MARNI Fall 2013 Runway Photos- Milan Fashion Week

Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2013 Runway Photos + Video – Milan Fashion Week

Red Carpet Beauty: Adele keeping it real at the Oscars with drugstore hair products

Oscars 2013 Red Carpet Arrivals… as it happens

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How about this for Oscar dressing: Red Carpet fashion picks from Naeem Khan, Jenny Packham, Reem Acra, J Mendel, with photos galore!

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